"Ice Apartment" “The Ice Apartment” conveys a mundane situation between four co-inhabitants of a square room. These four figures, three women and one man, are aware of one another’s physical presence, but do not commit themselves to any true communicative exchange. As if they exist in separate spaces, these four characters are distilled within self-centered motions that repeat for an indefinite amount of time. This situation is shot from four different angles to establish the physical presence of the room. The four-sided video is then translated via projection onto a four-sided miniature room made of ice walls. In the dark, this ice room is illuminated by the blue-green light emitted by the projectors. Depending on the surface texture of each ice wall, the video image either floats on the outside, or appears trapped within the 5-inch thick material. This is the documentation of the first installation. |